our winter will start soon

it seems that I have to buy warmers for my little babies :

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although the winter, according to the calendar, should not start before....

what's about the global warming

cheers
Bernhard

Bernhard, you could call me a skeptic but I think it should be called a global cycle, not not global warming.

I agree with Roseman. When we were in NZ earlier in the year, we went to see 3 glaciers and were told all of them were advancing...NOT RETREATING !!!

No new ice age, the weatherfrogs were mistaken. Now the forecast says -6°C.

we will survive!

Bernhard, they Australia is the driest continent, we are getting help with water soon. Off the coast of Antarctica there is an iceberg measuring 19 x 8 metres, it is going to dock over in West Aus, should help for a while,

I think the majority opinion in Australia is that climatic cycles and species extinctions happen naturally and are unpreventable; global warming and extinctions caused by Homo sapiens also happen, and we should do whatever is necessary to stop them.

Agreed, Margaret. The concern seems to be that the climate change is happening so fast that we won't be able to adapt quickly enough to cope with it.

I believe we will speek more often about this topic. I agree with you, that it is a cycle. We can not fix the effects on our observations made in one or two years. There will happen events, like the melting of glaciers, which will also have an impact on the climate. The worst szenario is the breakdown of the gulf stream. This would indeed result in colder winters in western Europe. We would get a climate like in Canada. what will happen on your island ?
I hope all our politician will agree to go a common way to stop the warming (a little bit). Our children will have to live in the 'warm world', want not to paint a picture of it.

...a German once said...

Cheers Bernhard

Margaret, I agree with you.

Me too... cycle yes... however, by our actions it is happening at a rate much faster than ever before... if you want a real scare have a look at ocean acidification too... in many ways it makes global warming look like a walk in the park. Last time the oceans acidified it took 100 million years to recover: